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virulent, mild or moderate nature of the passions. How does the soul which is immaterial take in karmic matter? In answer to this question the author commences the sutra with the word jīva'. That which lives is jīva. It is called jīva because it has vitality and life. For the sake of brevity the sutra may read karmayogyān instead of karmaṇo yogyān. But the splitting is intended to indicate another idea or statement. What is that other statement? It is that the living being is actuated by passions on account of karmas. This is what is implied. Karmaņo is the expression of the cause. Owing to the rise of karmas, the self is imbued with passions. There can be no tinge or stain of passion in the case of a soul free from karmas. From this it follows that the bondage or association between the self and karma-spirit and matter - is beginningless. So there is no room for the question how the immaterial soul is bound by the material karmas. Otherwise, if we postulate a beginning for the bondage, there can be no bondage at all as in the case of the emancipated souls characterized by utter purity. The second statement is that the self takes in appropriate particles of matter capable of being transformed into karma. The case changes according to meaning. So it gives up the former fifth case indicating cause, and becomes the sixth case karmaņo yogyān (fit to become karma). The mention of ‘matter' is intended to declare that karma is matter. By this the view that karma is the unseen potency or invisible, mystical force of the soul is refuted, as the quality of the soul cannot be the cause of transmigration or worldly existence (i.e. bondage). 'Adatte' is intended to indicate the relation of cause and effect. Consequently, owing to the potency of wrong faith etc., the self, possessed of incessant activity in all states, attracts subtle matter of infinite space-points pervading the same spacepoints occupied by the self, capable of turning into karmic matter, which then is combined by inter-penetration with the space-points of the self. This is called bondage. Just as the
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